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The French company that runs Britain’s fleet of nuclear power stations has ordered immediate checks on all of its reactors as a result of the failures highlighted in the Fukushima crisis in Japan.

But Vincent de Rivaz, the chief executive of EDF Energy, also warned that politicians should not delay decisions on building a new generation of reactors. He said: “We have set in place an immediate action plan including an immediate check by our station directors of their back-up systems, over and above normal audit processes.”

Mr de Rivaz said that staff working on back-up generating capability to keep